Quantitative electron microscopic study of the hypoxic fetal sheep heart

Anatomical Record

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 381-388

  Lewis, A Malia ^a   Mathieu Costello, Odile ^b   McMillan, Paul J ^a   Gilbert, Raymond D ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic hypoxia; Glycogen; High altitude; Mitochondria; Myofibrils

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; GLYCOGEN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FETUS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HYPOXIA; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GLYCOGEN; HEART VENTRICLES; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOCARDIUM; MYOFIBRILS; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0033485601     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(19991201)256:4<381::AID-AR5>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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